EA and Namco have announced a release window for Flagship's Hellgate: London - Summer 2007. Here's the announcement at GamesIndustry.biz:

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Electronic Arts, Chertsey UK. January 8, 2007. Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today announced a summer 2007 worldwide ship window for the highly-anticipated online action RPG Hellgate: London&trade;, the first original PC title from premier developer Flagship Studios.
"We are all committed to making Hellgate: London absolutely the best game possible,&rdquo; said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. &ldquo;The anticipation surrounding the game is immense and we are looking forward to its launch being a truly worldwide event."
Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and the action of first-person shooter titles, while offering infinite playability with dynamically generated levels, items, enemies and events. The player creates a heroic character, completes quests, and battles through innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching skill paths. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable appearances, and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create their own unique hero.

I'm pretty excited about this title, too. Strange, since I have little to no interest in FPS derivitives, but we'll see. My mind has turned the game into Deus Ex with more RPG which sounds like a great formula even though I suck royally at action titles.

txa1265

January 10th, 2007 03:33

Since FPS is my first love with RPG as a close second this has me totally jazzed!